This volume contains the following manuscripts described as either an Inaugural Dissertation or an Inaugural Essay presented to the University of Maryland for the Degree of "Doctor of Medicine" or "Doctor of Physic" : Chorea; and its Rational Treatment / by Norwood, Vernon Lee ; Typhoid Fever / by Carter, Paul ; Gestation and Labor / by Lockridge, J. B. ; Urinary Pathology / by Rivers, Wilfred J. ; Traumatic Hemorrhage and its Treatment / by Morris, Louis W. ; Alcohol / by Perry J. Clifford ; Should Doctors Have a Better Education? / by Casteel D. T. E. ; Typhoid Fever / by Clark, Homer L. ; Ague, Intermittent and Remittent Fever / by Williams, A. J. ; Typhoid Fever / by Hendricks, N. M. ; Posterior Spinal Sclerosis / by Blum, Joseph ; Opium / by Schaffner, D. W. ; Hygiene / by Rogers, Charles Eugene ; Our Profession / by Kinard, George C. ; Alcohol / by Shoemaker, William A. ; Diabetes Mellitus / by Dorsey, J. Horatio